rand/lib.rs
1// Copyright 2018 Developers of the Rand project.
2// Copyright 2013-2017 The Rust Project Developers.
3//
4// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
5// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
6// <LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
7// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
8// except according to those terms.
9
10//! Utilities for random number generation
11//!
12//! Rand provides utilities to generate random numbers, to convert them to
13//! useful types and distributions, and some randomness-related algorithms.
14//!
15//! # Quick Start
16//!
17//! To get you started quickly, the easiest and highest-level way to get
18//! a random value is to use [`random()`]; alternatively you can use
19//! [`thread_rng()`]. The [`Rng`] trait provides a useful API on all RNGs, while
20//! the [`distributions`] and [`seq`] modules provide further
21//! functionality on top of RNGs.
22//!
23//! ```
24//! use rand::prelude::*;
25//!
26//! if rand::random() { // generates a boolean
27//! // Try printing a random unicode code point (probably a bad idea)!
28//! println!("char: {}", rand::random::<char>());
29//! }
30//!
31//! let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
32//! let y: f64 = rng.gen(); // generates a float between 0 and 1
33//!
34//! let mut nums: Vec<i32> = (1..100).collect();
35//! nums.shuffle(&mut rng);
36//! ```
37//!
38//! # The Book
39//!
40//! For the user guide and further documentation, please read
41//! [The Rust Rand Book](https://rust-random.github.io/book).
42
43#![doc(
44 html_logo_url = "https://www.rust-lang.org/logos/rust-logo-128x128-blk.png",
45 html_favicon_url = "https://www.rust-lang.org/favicon.ico",
46 html_root_url = "https://rust-random.github.io/rand/"
47)]
48#![deny(missing_docs)]
49#![deny(missing_debug_implementations)]
50#![doc(test(attr(allow(unused_variables), deny(warnings))))]
51#![no_std]
52#![cfg_attr(feature = "simd_support", feature(stdsimd))]
53#![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly", feature(slice_partition_at_index))]
54#![cfg_attr(doc_cfg, feature(doc_cfg))]
55#![allow(
56 clippy::float_cmp,
57 clippy::neg_cmp_op_on_partial_ord,
58)]
59
60#[cfg(feature = "std")] extern crate std;
61#[cfg(feature = "alloc")] extern crate alloc;
62
63#[allow(unused)]
64macro_rules! trace { ($($x:tt)*) => (
65 #[cfg(feature = "log")] {
66 log::trace!($($x)*)
67 }
68) }
69#[allow(unused)]
70macro_rules! debug { ($($x:tt)*) => (
71 #[cfg(feature = "log")] {
72 log::debug!($($x)*)
73 }
74) }
75#[allow(unused)]
76macro_rules! info { ($($x:tt)*) => (
77 #[cfg(feature = "log")] {
78 log::info!($($x)*)
79 }
80) }
81#[allow(unused)]
82macro_rules! warn { ($($x:tt)*) => (
83 #[cfg(feature = "log")] {
84 log::warn!($($x)*)
85 }
86) }
87#[allow(unused)]
88macro_rules! error { ($($x:tt)*) => (
89 #[cfg(feature = "log")] {
90 log::error!($($x)*)
91 }
92) }
93
94// Re-exports from rand_core
95pub use rand_core::{CryptoRng, Error, RngCore, SeedableRng};
96
97// Public modules
98pub mod distributions;
99pub mod prelude;
100mod rng;
101pub mod rngs;
102pub mod seq;
103
104// Public exports
105#[cfg(all(feature = "std", feature = "std_rng"))]
106pub use crate::rngs::thread::thread_rng;
107pub use rng::{Fill, Rng};
108
109#[cfg(all(feature = "std", feature = "std_rng"))]
110use crate::distributions::{Distribution, Standard};
111
112/// Generates a random value using the thread-local random number generator.
113///
114/// This is simply a shortcut for `thread_rng().gen()`. See [`thread_rng`] for
115/// documentation of the entropy source and [`Standard`] for documentation of
116/// distributions and type-specific generation.
117///
118/// # Provided implementations
119///
120/// The following types have provided implementations that
121/// generate values with the following ranges and distributions:
122///
123/// * Integers (`i32`, `u32`, `isize`, `usize`, etc.): Uniformly distributed
124/// over all values of the type.
125/// * `char`: Uniformly distributed over all Unicode scalar values, i.e. all
126/// code points in the range `0...0x10_FFFF`, except for the range
127/// `0xD800...0xDFFF` (the surrogate code points). This includes
128/// unassigned/reserved code points.
129/// * `bool`: Generates `false` or `true`, each with probability 0.5.
130/// * Floating point types (`f32` and `f64`): Uniformly distributed in the
131/// half-open range `[0, 1)`. See notes below.
132/// * Wrapping integers (`Wrapping<T>`), besides the type identical to their
133/// normal integer variants.
134///
135/// Also supported is the generation of the following
136/// compound types where all component types are supported:
137///
138/// * Tuples (up to 12 elements): each element is generated sequentially.
139/// * Arrays (up to 32 elements): each element is generated sequentially;
140/// see also [`Rng::fill`] which supports arbitrary array length for integer
141/// types and tends to be faster for `u32` and smaller types.
142/// * `Option<T>` first generates a `bool`, and if true generates and returns
143/// `Some(value)` where `value: T`, otherwise returning `None`.
144///
145/// # Examples
146///
147/// ```
148/// let x = rand::random::<u8>();
149/// println!("{}", x);
150///
151/// let y = rand::random::<f64>();
152/// println!("{}", y);
153///
154/// if rand::random() { // generates a boolean
155/// println!("Better lucky than good!");
156/// }
157/// ```
158///
159/// If you're calling `random()` in a loop, caching the generator as in the
160/// following example can increase performance.
161///
162/// ```
163/// use rand::Rng;
164///
165/// let mut v = vec![1, 2, 3];
166///
167/// for x in v.iter_mut() {
168/// *x = rand::random()
169/// }
170///
171/// // can be made faster by caching thread_rng
172///
173/// let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
174///
175/// for x in v.iter_mut() {
176/// *x = rng.gen();
177/// }
178/// ```
179///
180/// [`Standard`]: distributions::Standard
181#[cfg(all(feature = "std", feature = "std_rng"))]
182#[cfg_attr(doc_cfg, doc(cfg(all(feature = "std", feature = "std_rng"))))]
183#[inline]
184pub fn random<T>() -> T
185where Standard: Distribution<T> {
186 thread_rng().gen()
187}
188
189#[cfg(test)]
190mod test {
191 use super::*;
192
193 /// Construct a deterministic RNG with the given seed
194 pub fn rng(seed: u64) -> impl RngCore {
195 // For tests, we want a statistically good, fast, reproducible RNG.
196 // PCG32 will do fine, and will be easy to embed if we ever need to.
197 const INC: u64 = 11634580027462260723;
198 rand_pcg::Pcg32::new(seed, INC)
199 }
200
201 #[test]
202 #[cfg(all(feature = "std", feature = "std_rng"))]
203 fn test_random() {
204 let _n: usize = random();
205 let _f: f32 = random();
206 let _o: Option<Option<i8>> = random();
207 #[allow(clippy::type_complexity)]
208 let _many: (
209 (),
210 (usize, isize, Option<(u32, (bool,))>),
211 (u8, i8, u16, i16, u32, i32, u64, i64),
212 (f32, (f64, (f64,))),
213 ) = random();
214 }
215}